Environmental change in northern Cenozoic Australia: a multidisciplinary approach

政府间气候变化专门委员会（IPCC）警告说，到2020年至2050年，澳大利亚将遭受严重的生物多样性损失和水资源短缺。我们的研究将记录澳大利亚生物群在过去2500万年来通过三个气候变化周期的演变，从而量化并更好地预测我们的自然和文化社区面临的威胁的性质和规模。我们将开发创新技术，以确定史前生物和气候事件的日期，并使用一系列示踪剂，表征古代环境和地下水。该项目将通过在地质旅游和自然资源解释方面的教育和创造就业机会，协助澳大利亚农村和地区，并提供一种机制，解决世代技能短缺问题。

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warned that by 2020 to 2050, Australia will suffer significant biodiversity loss and water shortages. Our research will document and date the evolution of Australia's biota through three cycles of climate change over the last 25 million years to quantify and thereby better anticipate the nature and dimension of threats facing our natural and cultural communities. We will develop innovative techniques to date prehistoric biotic and climatic events and, using a range of tracers, characterize ancient environments and groundwater. This project will assist rural and regional Australia through education and job creation in geotourism and natural resource interpretation and provide a mechanism to combat generational skill shortage.